the point of view that creates the world

I imagine my creative process as a cycle of filling up a reservoir with inspirations and ideas, and then emptying it out into various creations. Sometimes that reservoir is drained in one explosive surge, but mostly it’s emptied out a little bit at a time, into different projects.

Recently, I’ve been using my creative reserves to power the writing on the Tabletop RPG show, and whatever is left is going into Radio Free Burrito.  My stupid random thoughts and links, once the exclusive property of my blog, are filling up Twitter and Tumblr, and I haven’t had much to say here, anyway.

BUT.

I have a new Tabletop for you:

Most of the things I’ve been consuming are helping me power up and work on the Tabletop RPG show (all day today I have conference calls with our writers and designers!) and I would like to share some of the ways I’ve been refilling my creative reservoir, starting with books:

The End is Now
The End is Nigh
Appendix N
The White Mountains
D&D 5E Dungeon Master’s Guide
Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition and Science Fiction Companion
Hamlet’s Hit Points

And Podcasts:

99 Percent Invisible
Welcome To Nightvale
Snap Judgment

Also, movies:

Serial Mom
True Romance
Hardware
Heavy Metal
The Third Man
The Black Hole

Some TV:

The Jinx
True Detective
Thundarr, The Barbarian
The Americans
Agent Carter

And Anime:

Ergo Proxy
Ghost In The Shell: Arise
Psycho Pass
Howl’s Moving Castle
Spirited Away

So my reservoir is slowly being refilled, at a rate that is just slightly faster than it is being emptied … and neat stuff is happening.